Falsehood in Advertising
Saturday, March 5th, 2011I would like to lodge a complaint.
But since there is nowhere to which I can effectively lodge my complaint, I must be content to vent here. Lucky you.
Yesterday, the Super-Smart Lawyer and I hunkered down to watch Temptress Moon, a Chinese film that looked promising to fit our usual Film Criteria: A good movie with some nice-looking eye candy and perhaps some sexytimes.
See?
All righty then. You see at the top where it has three pull quotes from reviews? “Sensuous!,” “Ravishing!,” and “Steamy Passion!”?
The movie had none of these elements. It was a fine movie, but it was not at all what it implied, both from the picture and the pull quotes.
If the blurbs had mentioned it was “Disturbing In Its Twisted Sensuality,” or “Showing The Result of Some Very Bad Upbringing,” that would have been more true to the film itself.
In other words, the Super-Smart Lawyer and I are owed a steamy, passionate film with ravishing sensuousness.



